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Ms. Vanessa Timmer
Ph.D. candidate
University of British Columbia, Canada

Canada

Tel: +1 604-224-2080
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Vanessa Timmer is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and is in her final year of completing her dissertation on transnational environmental organizations. She recently completed a two-year Fulbright Research Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government. During her appointment at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, she worked with the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS) under the supervision of Dr. Calestous Juma. Her PhD dissertation focuses on the organizational performance of Greenpeace International and Friends of the Earth International in light of their goal to advance sustainability. This research has led her to analyze the dynamic trends and trajectories of the past thirty years from the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, through the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. With the ISTS, Timmer worked with David Cash to develop the research protocol for case studies on knowledge systems for sustainable development. She is co-authoring a book on the Equator Initiative 2002 Award finalists with Calestous Juma. Timmer received a Bachelor of Arts (honors) in Sociology from Queen's University, Canada, and a Master of Science in Environmental Change and Management (with distinction) at Oxford University, United Kingdom.

This Network Member is involved with the following projects:
Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)

This Network Member is classified within these Core Themes:
Guidance (institutions and incentives)
Environment
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
Connecting the ecological, economic, and social
Cities
Integrative methods for place-based analysis
Indicators and monitoring
Driving forces relevant to a sustainability transition
Complex adaptive systems
Energy
Impacts and response

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